This group’s taste is distinguished by a soft texture and buttery feel in the mouth, as if the leaves are half-dressed as they come off the plant. For some, these are the highest form of lettuce. Generally, the plants form well wrapped heads at maturity, with broad midribs and wellblanched hearts.

Blushed Butter OakSame parentage and color as ‘Blush Butter Cos’ but selected for oakish leaves that wrap a buttery heart. Also highly rated for flavor and cold hardiness by everyone that trials it. I love this stuff. pricing and more
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CarmonaAnother grower favorite on the verge of commercial extinction when we used the last of GTF’s old seed to reinstate this beauty at the head of her class. Productive, disease resistant, and market quality. We’ve had big thanks from many growers. pricing and more
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Deer TongueOften described as a a “bibb type”; buttery on the tongue with a crisp texture and mild taste. This is an heirloom favorite, named for its pointed leaves, but known for it’s unique crunch and great taste. pricing and more
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DivinaA big framed beautiful butterhead, emerald green, tight with a well-blanched heavy heart. Very slow to bolt. Complete resistance to downy mildew in our on-farm trials, and high resistance to Sclerotinia for a butter-type. ‘Divina’ would have disappeared from commercial production twelve years ago if Renee Shepherd hadn’t asked us to keep it alive for her seed racks. What a save! I sug... pricing and more
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Emerald OakOne of our 2003 farm-original releases, and we still really like it. A very tidy and compact jewel green oakleaf that matures into a dense buttery-hearted head. Leaves are perfect salad size from either baby or mature heads. From a cross between Blushed Butter Oak and Deer Tongue, this variety captures some of the best taste and texture qualities of ... pricing and more
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Flashy Butter GemLatest of the ‘flashy’ red splashed series, this one a Little Gem-like butter-cos that forms a fat short-leafed football of a lettuce, splattered throughout by crimson. Perfect leaves for high-yield salad crop, or for dense baby heads. Great taste, texture, and color. pricing and more
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Flashy Butter OakReleased first by our Fedco friends in 2005. We’ve been working toward this blend of ‘Flashy Troutback’ and ‘Emerald Oak’ ever since I laid eyes on the ingredients, circa 1999. This is the first of several variations on the “speckled oakleaf” theme that are in the works. This one combines flashy red splashes with emerald green oak leaves in a compact head. Texture is crisp and butter... pricing and more
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Flashy Lightning Butter-OakStand Back!! This stuff is hot and in a hurry. A quick heading butter with compact dark green oak leaves, flashy-splashed with dark red, that becomes a beautiful pink in the big blanched heart. First flashes into a unique mini-head, then folds into a dense butter-heart before bolting. A unique blast of lettuce traits. Teen-rated very low on bitterness. pricing and more
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Garnet Butter GemOur good customer, Hiroshi Takikawa, market farmer from Los Olivos, CA, sent us seed from a favorite lettuce cross many years ago. This is our first selection from his gift, a compact garnet red butter lettuce with gem appeal. pricing and more
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KweikA quick-heading lime-green butter type lettuce, very well suited to cold season crops or unheated winter greenhouse culture. Large, very resistant to downy mildew, tip-burn, and Sclerotinia stem rot. Abundant Life Seed Foundation passed this gem to us for increase the spring before their fire. pricing and more
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Meriviglia d' InvernoAn Italian butter head especially suited to winter harvests from September-October plantings without bolting. Keep in mind, that's a Mediterranean winter, but a tunnel can create an Italian winter almost anywhere these days...sort of. This variety can be planted March through October, but shines in the cold short days. Name means "Winter Marvel." pricing and more
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MescherAn heirloom of distinction, dated to the 1700s in Austria. A fast-hearting spring type, green with red-tinged leaves, and small very dense heads with perfect butter flavor. Sent to us as remnant seed by Oregon farmer Renee Oberdorf in 2007. pricing and more
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PiratA great heirloom butterhead standard, red tinged and well-folded leaves form a heavy, blanched head. Tighter than ‘Marvel of Four Seasons’ and more of a brick red. This was the best butterhead in our trials for resistance to downy mildew, Sclerotinia, bacterial head rots, and tip-burn. A beauty from the Alps that still retains high status among butter lettuces for flavor and box-filling produc... pricing and more
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Really Red Deer TongueIf the traditional ‘Red Deer Tongue’ leaves you wanting more red, try this first release in a series that combines the heirloom ‘Green Deer Tongue’ with our ‘Hyper Red Rumple Waved’. Leaves are long, pointed, and dark red all over, with a contrasting white midrib. Hard to classify by type. Begins as a unique dark red cutting type, then makes a butter-cos heart. Probably best as a sprin... pricing and more
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Red-Earred ButterheartSounds like an embarrassed suitor in springtime, but here’s a new selection from the ‘Really Red Deer Tongue’ tribe, with dark red pointed leaves that are shorter, broader, more buttery and folded than RRDT. Like its parent, introduced through the Fedco catalog. pricing and more
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Ruby VaseThe pointed leaves are upright, forming vase-like heads of the darkest kind of red, many having rose pink hearts from our â??red to the heartâ?? breeding lines. Selected against tip burn. pricing and more
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Speckled Amish ButterheadAn old heirloom with a most unique pigment pattern: bright red speckles on a lime green buttery leaf. Heads are dense and buttery, with pink patterned hearts that look like variegated radicchio. A confirmed member of the Slow Food Ark of Taste. pricing and more
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Tom ThumbOne of the original mini lettuces, a true heirloom butterhead introduced to the US from England just after the Civil War. Medium green, very dense with creamy hearts, makes a perfect split-head salad. Fast maturing, can be densely spaced 5â??6â?? apart in early spring plantings for abundant first-to-market heads. Heat and bolt resistant if used as a summer lettuce. pricing and more
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WaldorA brilliant green heading winter lettuce, September sown for continuous picking or full head harvest April through May. Winter lettuces of this type are far more comon in Europe than the US. Bred by Sativa Biodynamic Seed, Rheinau, Switzerland. pricing and more
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Wonder of StuttgartA green German butterhead, said to be dependable year-round with moderate winter protection. We have only grown it once so far, but are offering based on first impressions and testimonials. The stock seed for this was handed to me by a wonderful European couple at a conference last winter. I have lost the original packet with their names, but hope to recover this information for the next catalog. pricing and more
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Yugoslavian RedA brick-red blushed butterhead heirloom, first introduced in the US by Southern Exposure Seed Exchange in 1987. Quick to mature, an early spring market leader. Inner leaves blanch to creamy yellow-white hearts with red flecking. pricing and more
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